Help a complete technophobe - will Quicktime Pro do what I need?

Hi
My husband has a Sony Camcorder that creates MPEGs, which is great for his windows laptop, not so much for my mac.

I don't want to do anything but play them, maybe put them on a future ipod (only have an old style nano at the moment so not crucial), will Quicktime Pro do the job? The web page for it isn't really clear, probably because I'm clueless if it does then it's worth my £20, if not I need another solution...

Quicktime will definitely play them, you don't have to buy the pro version. However, there is a problem with muxed mpegs, seems that any conversion will strip the clip from any audio that contains. If you plan on converting muxes MPEGs into anything else, you will need another application, such as FFMPEGX. But if you only want to view them, quicktime (not pro) will suffice.

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